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It’s an e-Christmas card from the “visa people” – the ones who fucked up my visa request, leaving me in total panic mode and thinking I’d have to move to New Zealand. Luckily they then informed me I could apply after all, then fucked up the paperwork, then made it right, then told me I’d need to pay $300 for a medical, then told me I didn’t need it, then granted me a visa. They’re so shit over there that it’s no wonder they didn’t have much time to create a decent Christmas card. This has to be the shittest one EVER. It would be shit if they’d sent it in the mail, but the fact that it’s an e-card is even worse. All those options out there, all those fancy images, flashy graphics and jingles, and they choose this. Did they scan it from a card someone’s gran sent in the 70s?

I don’t like the visa people very much. They can shove their crappy card up their inbox. Bah humbug.

Past Rambles

Burqalicious Extras!

Huge thanks to my friend Trevor here, who made a fabulous host at the Burqalicious – The Dubai Diaries Q&A night in Ubud last week. And yes, it was last week, in case you were thinking this photo has a 1978 sort of quality to it. Not sure what happened there… my dress wasn’t even […]

Just got this lovely piece of news, which is very cool. Burqalicious – The Dubai Diaries is number two in the Apple iBookstore charts! YAY! But wouldn’t it be awesome to get it to number one?! OK ya’ll, if you haven’t bought this book yet, now’s the time to download it for the measly price of […]

So next Spring my book will be published in North America and Canada, thanks to a lovely little publisher’s called Skyhorse. How cute is that name? It reminds me of galloping ponies in the clouds, maybe even unicorns and Care Bears. I like it a lot. It wouldn’t be the same if it was called […]

I haven’t really seen too many reviews of my book… and who knows, maybe that’s a good thing. But I was still quite excited when someone told me they’d seen one in this week’s NW magazine. Before you say it, it’s not really a review – as such – rather a mention. They haven’t passed […]

Как удачливый я должен иметь книжное дело с российским издательством. That, according to my nifty oline translater thingy means, “How lucky I am to have a book deal with a Russian publishing house.” Which I am. YAY! Of course, I’m VERY excited to see how it looks in such a…. such a… well, such an […]

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